MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Some Montgomery County motorists needed to seek an alternate route Saturday evening while crews cleared the scene of a tractor-trailer crash that left two people injured.
According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook post from 6:31 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, Dixie Bee Road would be shut down for “approximately the next couple of hours” due to cleanup efforts.
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Officials said a semi veered off Interstate 24 at mile marker 15 and went down the embankment onto Dixie Bee Road shortly after 4 p.m. No other vehicles were involved in the incident.
The sheriff’s office wrote on social media that one person was being flown to an area hospital while another was being removed from the vehicle, but no major injuries were reported on her.
Clarksville Fire Rescue — which was requested for mutual aid with the overturned tractor-trailer — announced at 7:22 p.m. that crews had successfully removed the second passenger from the cab of the vehicle…